Brett Adams, vice president of development at rPath, sees 2007 as a pivotal year for virtualization. When you are looking at the future of virtualization, few companies are as well positioned to make observations as rPath. Billing itself as the "software appliance company," rPath was one of the firs... Read More...

DataCore Software has announced new, affordable, remote site Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC) solutions under its Virtual Infrastructure Foundation class of products that deliver the highest levels of data protection and advanced storage... Read More...

IT Week Labs recently tested a beta release of VMware’s Fusion, a desktop virtualisation product for Mac OS X comparable to VMware Workstation but with a distinctly Apple-flavoured appearance. The final product will compete with Parallels’ Parallels Workstation for the job of offering OS X users ... Read More...

Here is a quick hint from the Virtrix Web site that I thought everyone would find interesting: Just a quick note here when connecting to an ESX server stand-alone host (NOT the VirtualCenter server) with the VI Client: you cannot use * as a password character... Read More...

The Virtualization Miniconf is scheduled for today, January 15, 2007, and it is the first day of LCA 2007. The miniconf schedule is planned to fit into the overall guidelines for LCA. A general keynote session will occur during the early morning period.... Read More...

The start of 2007 finds IT vendors at the top of the food chain squirming at being treated like the help. Vendor royalty such as Microsoft, Dell, and Intel, along with consultants who have insinuated themselves as IT's empowered insider, don't like it when you hold strategy meetings without inviting... Read More...

A new whitepaper from Symantec - written by Peter Ferrie, Senior Principal Researcher - talks about security issues with today's virtualization solutions. This 13 page document discusses the following: As virtual machine emulators have become commonplace... Read More...